I wonder who will scavenge all the soggy furniture I've seen put out over last couple weeks under all this rain? Those couches must weigh a few hundred pounds by now. Good luck with that. The notice I got from the town also says not to put TV's and other electronics out as well. What I really do dislike is scavengers coming by in middle of night to paw through stuff in front of the house. I chased off someone going through my recycling bin one night ~3AM - it was ridiculous. If it was OK to scavenge before this law, then why did so many of these scavengers feel the need to scurry around at night like rats to do it? If they wanted something I put out there before this law, then they should've just come by during the day and just picked it up without issue. Heck, I would've even loaded it into their truck\car for them if asked nicely.

We're reaching a real point of diminishing returns here. If the BAC limit is set so low it can be triggered by someone who just used mouthwash, you may see a lot of DWI cases just get bounced out of court. Need to go after the repeat offenders and if you get convicted for DWI, automatic revocation for several years, a massive fine, and perhaps confiscate the driver's vehicle (another huge monetary loss).

Pension reform will simply not occur until communities start declaring bankruptcy and judges start invalidating these contracts in the bankruptcy process perhaps. State workers are surely entitled to a pension when they retire, but the OT padding, double-dipping, and other manipulations need to stop. I do not look forward to that day because some real honest workers will get hurt financially, but I have a strong feeling that these bankruptcies will start occurring and changes will have to occur. I think the tipping point has already been reached. Those who gamed the system are going to cost others a lot of money when this unsustainable system caves in.

Hackers get through some of the best firewalls, encryption, compromised passwords, use social engineering, you name it, to gain access to information. So if a company uses multiple barriers and still gets hacked, you still think they ought to get punished? Are you one of those people that think that if their kid trespasses, scales a fence around a dangerous area with warning signs, then gets hurt in the area afterwards, the property owner should still be sued for negligence? I'm no defender of big business, but I do work in the IT world and the methods that are used to hack into systems are very difficult to defend against even with the best security measures.

I believe in the 'Rule of Five' regarding flies for fishing: Presentation, Presentation, Presentation, Size, and Color.

Not allow backpacks to be carried by anyone anymore? Seriously?

I wish the President would tell North Korea that if they launch ANY missile (test or not) we would shoot it down immediately.

There's actually a movement to get Atlatls legal for hunting in more states. They hunt feral hogs with them in Texas and other places down south. In case you're not familiar with this spear thrower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlatl

When the Saratoga county clerk and several other clerks around the state told NY State they would not issue ID's to illegal immigrants when that bill was on the table, the legislature backed off real quick. Wished this could've happened before this SAFE law was passed so hurriedly. Sometimes the local gov'ts need to tell the state to 'go pound sand' once in a while when they create such bad legislation. NY could've crafted a better law here and taken the appropriate amount of time to do it right.

War Powers Act ought to be amended to have a requirement that after XX days, if Congress acts to declare war, a draft immediately goes into effect with it. Either make sure the crisis is over quickly, or the country goes all in. Even if draftees never make it to deployment, the enormous cost of simply calling them up and interrupting their lives should give pause to Congress to go quickly into a war. Those 'sons (and daughters now) of affluence' should have to shoulder the same burdens without exceptions. Even if declared 4F, or whatever medical reason is used now, they can still serve in national service as a non-combatant role (medical, transport, logistics, etc). Educational deferments should be prohibited as well.